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Testimony of Henia Fania (Maringer) Mager, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Bialystok, Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk

Testimony
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Testimony of Henia Fania (Maringer) Mager, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Bialystok, Chelyabinsk and Magnitogorsk Life in Warsaw before the war; religious family; displays of antisemitism; boycott of Jewish stores. Outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids on Warsaw; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including details about children's games; typhus disease; escape through the sewers; difficulty crossing the border into the Soviet Union; capture of her mother and her mother's disappearance; escape to Bialystok; life in Bialystok including her father's work as a tailor; deportation to Chelyabinsk on a train; life in Chelyabinsk including her mother's escape to Chelyabinsk; transfer to Magnitogorsk; end of the war, 1945. Return to Poland; life in Silesia; aliya to Israel, 1957.
item Id
6790006
First Name
Fania
Henia
Last Name
Mager
Maiden Name
Maringer
Date of Birth
10/01/1933
Place of Birth
Warszawa, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
08/11/07
Date of Creation - latest
08/11/07
Name of Submitter
Mager Fania Henia
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection